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Chicago Dramatists
(Chicago Dramatists)
10 Virgins. Could truth lie underneath the muck and dirt of a marsh?
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Royal George Theatre Center
(Chicago Dramatists)
A Steady Rain. It's madness, anger and love on the cold streets of our beloved big-shouldered city.
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Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre
Annie Get Your Gun.
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Playground Theater
Belmont Burlesque Revue. A revealing, late-night comedy and dance show.
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Second City
(Second City)
Best of the Second City, The. The second city's finest improv.
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Second City
(Second City)
Between Barack and a Hard Place. With the primaries looming in the near future, "Between Barack and a New Show" has decidedly replaced "Between Barack and a Hard Place."
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Briar Street Theatre
Blue Man Group. A silent but oddly endearing blue trio explore the humorous and bizarre.
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Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
(Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Jean can't stop answering a dead man's cell phone. And the phone keeps ringing.
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Bailiwick Arts Center
(Hell in a Handbag Productions)
Die! Mommie, Die!. The campiest theatre in Chicago takes it up a notch with Charles Busch's homage to 1960s thriller films. Oh, man!
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
Disposable Nation. From stem cells to smokers to Pluto-everything in America is disposable.
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Playground Theater
(Blewt! Productions)
Don't Spit the Water!. A late night game show so funny it'll make you spit.
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IO Theater
(Atticus Finch)
Felt. What's funnier than improv? Sassy puppets performing improv.
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TimeLine Theatre Company
(TimeLine Theatre Company)
Fiorello!. TimeLine is bringin' a little slice of Broadway back to Chicago.
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
From Fear to Eternity.
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Apollo Studio Theater
(Sarah King/flashlite productions)
good crazy/bad crazy. Everyone is crazy, but some people are better at hiding it—sort of.
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Theater on the Lake
(Blindfaith Theatre Company)
Gorey Stories: A Musical Entertainment. Whimsy meets macabre in Edward Gorey's signature tales.
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Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)
I Am Who I Am: The Teddy Pendergrass Story. Meet Teddy Pendergrass, "the Black Elvis Presley."
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IO Theater
Improvised Shakespeare. Improv that uses the bard's language and themes.
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Profiles Theatre
(Profiles Theatre)
In a Dark Dark House. Two brothers must face their traumatic pasts.
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Royal George Theatre Center
(InFusion Theatre Company)
Intrigue with Faye. Kate Robins, writer/producer of HBO's "Six Feet Under," brings her talent to the stage.
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Annoyance Theatre
Invention Show, The. Think you know the most important invention ever? Think again.
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Royal George Theatre Center
Late Nite Catechism. Enroll in a class of Sister's sharp religious humor.
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Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. Lyle is a very special crocodile who only eats Turkish caviar. And he's back for a re-mount.
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Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)
Memphis Soul (The Story of Stax Records). Stax Records sashays through history as a legendary label.
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Bailiwick Arts Center
Moscow.
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Theatre Building Chicago
(Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago)
Nine. Catch this Broadway musical before it goes celluloid.
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A Red Orchid Theatre
(A Red Orchid Theatre)
Not A Game For Boys. Think table tennis is for sissies? Think again.
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Strawdog Theatre
(Strawdog Theatre Company)
Old Town . One family goes under the microscope of local politics on election night.
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Chopin Theatre
(The Hypocrites)
Our Town. Reject all notions of traditional theatre!
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Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)
pHrenzy. Improv competition fueled by booze.
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Peter Jones Gallery
(Halcyon Theatre)
Pirandello's Henry IV. An Italian nobleman falls off his horse and then thinks he's a medieval German emperor.
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
Pratfall of Civilization. "Pratfall of Civilization" takes aim at America and hits its mark (mostly).
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City Lit
(City Lit Theater)
Pudd'nhead Wilson. Twain takes a look at small-town Missouri.
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Second City
(Second City)
Red Scare.
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The Chicago Theatre
(Shear Madness)
Shear Madness. A fast-paced, whodunit comedy that lets the audience call the shots.
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Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
(Drury Lane Oakbrook)
Sweet Charity. Based on Fellini's screenplay for "Nights of Cabiria" (1957), this musical captures the story of Charity Hope Valentine.
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Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)
That's Weird, Grandma. A boisterous group serves up kids' work for adults.
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Three Cat Media)
Three Cat Thursdays. Local and national artists headline the cabaret series, with a different show format each week.
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Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. 30 wacky/heart-breaking/funny/political plays in 60 minutes.
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Chase Bank Auditorium
(NPR and Chicago Public Radio)
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. Listen in on the nationally broadcast comedy-news quiz show.
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Second City
(Second City)
War! Now in its 4th Smash Year!. Second City tackles the issues that are dividing the nation. Ha!
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Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
(Broadway in Chicago)
Wicked. The musical back story of Glinda and the Wicked Witch of the West.

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